The Ignácio Family Name

Arms linked to Inacio and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

What Ignácio means

Ignácio is a familiar spelling of the Portuguese name Inacio. Its meaning, shared with Inacio, is “Son of Inácio”.

Before spelling was fixed, Inacio was also written Ignácio. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. In the Spanish register, Ignácio appears 1,507 times as a first surname and 1,730 times as a second one. French civil records give 147 births under the name Ignácio from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1951–1960.

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